Octavius Sturges

Octavius Sturges (1833 – 3 November 1894) was a British paediatrician who coined the term "chorea".

He attended King's College School and then was sent to the East India Company's Addiscombe Military Seminary, Croydon.

After graduation in 1852 he served two years in the army as an officer in the East India Company in Bombay,[1] but his military career ended in his erroneous diagnosis of aortic aneurysm.

He was made assistant-physician to the Hospital for Sick Children in Great Ormond Street in 1873, and full physician in 1884.

He wrote a number of articles but he is best remembered for his two books The Natural History of Pneumonia (1876) and Chorea and Whooping Cough (1877) He died in 1894 from injuries received when knocked down by a hansom cab[1] and was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery.